CHAPTER 11Stumbling Blocks and Other Realities
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
~ Epictetus
The room was filled with second-shift coal miners required to attend training. Topics included Fire Suppression, Fire Safety, Safety through Wellness, and Substance Abuse. The topic I’d been hired to present wasn’t on the agenda, but word of mouth had spread through crossed-armed groups that the mystery topic was about trust.
As if a vow of silence had been sworn, the body language of the all-male audience confirmed what I’d been briefed on: Trust, or rather its lack, was a “big issue” at the mine. A long history of nasty contract negotiations, name-calling, and strike threats resulted in the current situation ...
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